would be a far better solution. But how difficult is it? Time to investigate methinks.

At first I thought - no problem. I’ll look out some C++ code, open up my copy of X-Code, load up the FileMaker Pro header files form the Developer 7 disk and hack together an external plugin. It’ll be fun!

Ha.

Turns out after some investigation that since FileMaker Pro 7 still isn’t a Mach-O based application, you can’t write plug-ins from X-Code… you need to buy a copy of CodeWarrior Studio 9. Cost: six hundred of your earth dollars. If I was sneaky, and a Windows user, I could download a 30-limited trial and do it that way. But I’m neither. (Well, pick one.) So back to the drawingboard on there.